2021 was a unique year and your support was critical to advancing ULI’s mission to shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide.   We deliver our mission by connecting people, inspiring best practices, and providing leadership to solve challenges that affect communities through the built environment. 100% of our Annual Sponsorship dollars are kept in Central Texas and provide approximately 50% of our operations budget.  With your support in 2021, we were able to: 

• Maintain a strong membership through active member engagement.  We still have over 1000 members! 
• Introduce quarterly in-person New Member Socials while continuing virtual Coffee Chats to help members identify how to get involved. 
• Pivot to hybrid programing to provide in-person convening for those who are ready and excited to reconnect and virtual options for those not yet ready, but hungry for information.  This year we had 12 monthly breakfasts, 4 Greater Austin Regional Luncheons, 7 Young Leader Cheers & Chats (a record), and 3 WLI Visiting Leaders. 
• Expand our Local Member Council offerings.  We now have 9 councils with a quarter of our membership participating.
• Successfully hold all three of our signature events in person – Marketplace, Impact Awards, and Butler Game Day.  Both Marketplace and Impact Awards included a virtual component.  Attendance at these events matched pre-pandemic numbers. 
• Kick off Building Industry Leaders in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club to educate and mentor high school students on numerous career opportunities in commercial real estate and give them professional skills to become industry leaders and contributing members of their community.  
• Hold a Black History Month Campaign on social media to highlighting local organizations and initiatives with notable impact on Austin’s Black community.  Our campaign inspired a similar campaign by ULI Americas. 
• Develop a white paper on Building a Sustainable Region of Inclusive Communities by the Transportation Strategic Council.  Look for this paper to be a program topic next year. 
• Host three ULInsight events on Facebook as background information for a breakfast program to enable deeper conversation during the breakfast.  These programs covered the new Austin Economic Development Corporation, Homelessness, and the History of Local Systemic Real Estate Inequities.  These programs are available to watch and reference long term. 
• Form a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Steering Committee and hold DEI Training for ULI Austin leadership.